438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
Why Can’t iOS Have Smart Folders?
Collin Donnell: The only apps I know about that have added them for both macOS and iOS are Reminders and Notes, although I’ve found the implementation of them to be a bit weird. In both of those, you can’t add sub-conditions, so you can say all or any of a list of conditions, but you […]
Pinwheel 1.0
New Mac app from Bjango (Mastodon): Convert between color formats and color spaces. Automate color contrast testing. Create beautiful gradients and palettes. […] Pinwheel imports Design Tokens JSON, Figma documents, Sketch documents, CSS, asset catalogs, and other file types. Once you’ve finished making adjustments, automated exporting can be set up to simultaneously export in multiple […]
DOJ Wants Google to Sell Chrome and De-Google Android
Juli Clover (Hacker News, 9To5Google): The United States Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of an ongoing antitrust lawsuit, reports Bloomberg. Earlier this year, Google was found to have a search monopoly, and antitrust regulators have since been deciding on the actions that should be taken to address […]
News Explorer 2.0
Ron Elemans (Mastodon): Sidebar filters, or ‘Smart folders’ as Apple likes to call them, are now fully customizable. You can add as many filters as you like, and they are all synced across all your devices. […] Article comments are automatically downloaded and displayed in the Inspector panel when the article has a comment feed, […]
macOS 15.1.1
Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Sequoia 15.1.1 includes security fixes. Juli Clover: With the JavaScriptCore vulnerability, processing maliciously crafted web content could lead to arbitrary code execution. The WebKit vulnerability had the same issue with maliciously crafted web content, and it could […]
iOS 18.1.1 and iPadOS 18.1.1
Juli Clover (no iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes, the iOS 18.1.1 update provides important security fixes. Previously: iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1
visionOS 2.1.1
Juli Clover (no release notes, no developer, security, no enterprise): Today’s update focuses on security fixes rather than new features, and it is recommended for all Vision Pro users. Previously: visionOS 2.1
Why Is Lightroom Always Generating Thumbnails?
I really like working in Lightroom Classic except that—despite continually updating to newer versions that promise performance improvements and newer Macs with faster processors, SSDs, and more RAM—it still feels slow. Maybe it’s my imagination, but I don’t think it was always thus. I think I used to be able to import a thousand photos […]